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The Music of Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie (1847-1935): a Critical Study The copyright of this thesis rests with the author. No quotation from it should be published without the written consent of the author and infomation derived from it should be acknowledged. The Music of Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie (1847-1935): A Critical Study Duncan James Barker A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Music Department University of Durham 1999 Volume 2 of 2 23 AUG 1999 Contents Volume 2 Appendix 1: Biographical Timeline 246 Appendix 2: The Mackenzie Family Tree 257 Appendix 3: A Catalogue of Works 260 by Alexander Campbell Mackenzie List of Manuscript Sources 396 Bibliography 399 Appendix 1: Biographical Timeline Appendix 1: Biographical Timeline NOTE: The following timeline, detailing the main biographical events of Mackenzie's life, has been constructed from the composer's autobiography, A Musician's Narrative, and various interviews published during his lifetime. It has been verified with reference to information found in The Musical Times and other similar sources. Although not fully comprehensive, the timeline should provide the reader with a useful chronological survey of Mackenzie's career as a musician and composer. ABBREVIATIONS: ACM Alexander Campbell Mackenzie MT The Musical Times RAM Royal Academy of Music 1847 Born 22 August, 22 Nelson Street, Edinburgh. 1856 ACM travels to London with his father and the orchestra of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, and visits the Crystal Palace and the Thames Tunnel. 1857 Alexander Mackenzie admits to ill health and plans for ACM's education (July). ACM and his father travel to Germany in August: Edinburgh to Hamburg (by boat), then to Hildesheim (by rail) and Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (by Schnellpost). His father visits Alexis Bad for a few weeks to receive medical treatment. ACM lodges with the Bartel family in Sondershausen. Alexander Mackenzie dies within a fortnight of his return to Edinburgh (7/10? October 1857) and his death is reported in The Scotsman on 12 October. August Bartel becomes ACM's mentor in Germany; Oberlehrer Haesler is the schoolmaster to the ducal orchestra; Conzertmeister Wilhelm Uhlrich is ACM's master at the court orchestra; the Kappellmeister is Eduard Stein. 1859 ACM takes a trip to Hamburg en route to a month at home in Edinburgh during the summer. He returns through Holland (Rotterdam). 246 Appendix 1: Biographical Timeline 1860 ACM meets a friend and his aunt in Brussels. He suffers from gastric 'flu on his return to Sondershausen. 1861 ACM attends performances of Tannheiuser and Faust. Liszt visits Sondershausen from Weimar to hear Mazeppa. 1862 Performances are given in Sondershausen of Offenbach's Orphèe, Lohengrin, Liszt's Faust Symphony (the last piece which ACM performs there) and the Prelude to Tristan. ACM's Festmarsch is scored by Stein and performed by the orchestra before he leaves Germany. ACM returns to London. He visits Manns at the Crystal Palace, then approaches Sainton for violin lessons and enrols at the RAM on his advice. He is taught by Charles Lucas and Sainton, lodging initially at Walworth with family friends. He wins the King's Scholarship on 23 December (Agnes Zimmermann is elected to the scholarship at the same time). 1864 ACM is engaged to play in the orchestra at the Birmingham Festival under Costa. His early choral work, A fragment from Moore 's La/la Rookh, is performed at RAM concert (17 December, according to interview in MT, 1898). 1865 ACM leaves the RAM in London and moves back to family home at 41 Heriot Row, Edinburgh. He is engaged as a violinist for the Triennial Handel Festival at the Crystal Palace under Costa. During his time in Edinburgh, ACM establishes and performs in the Classical Chamber Concerts with William Adlington (Paterson & Sons); he conducts The Scottish Vocal Association and a large Tonic Sol-fa Society; he teaches at The Ladies' College (one of the Merchants' schools) and the Church of Scotland Normal School Training College. 1867 ACM is engaged as a violinist for the Birmingham Festival under Costa. 1870 On 1 October, ACM is appointed Precentor of St George's Church, Charlotte Square. ACM is again engaged for the Birmingham Festival. 1873 November, ACM is elected conductor of the Scottish Vocal Association. ACM is again engaged for the Birmingham Festival. 247 Appendix I: Biographical Timeline 1874 On 28 July ACM marries Mary Malina Burnside. They settle at 2 Darnaway Street, almost opposite the Mackenzie family home in Heriot Row. 1875 ACM travels to Sondershausen with a group of Dtisseldorfers and Friedrich Niecks. On the return journey he hears Die Meistersinger at Munich. Billow visits Edinburgh. He seeks out ACM, having seen the proofs of his Piano Quartet at the offices of the publisher C. F. Kahnt in Leipzig. The Piano Quartet is performed at St George's Hall, London, by William Coenen (4 March). 1876 ACM's orchestral Overture to a Comedy is performed in Dusseldorf by Tausch. 1877 Billow is engaged as the conductor of the Glasgow Choral Union Concerts, of which the orchestra visits Edinburgh each week. The orchestra performs ACM's orchestral work, Cervantes. Billow persuades ACM to conduct for the first time and in order to do so he borrows a dress suit from the Glasgow critic, Stillie. 1878 On 25 January Billow performs ACM's Piano Quartet in Hanover. ACM's Scherzo for orchestra is produced at the Crystal Palace on 18 October, under Tausch in Glasgow on 20 November' and under Mackenzie in Edinburgh on 2 December. 1879 ACM [probably] meets Clara Schumann in Edinburgh. ACM is advised by doctors to take a rest-cure abroad. He has to choose between Italy and Australia. ACM and his family leave for Italy (on Billow's advice) for eight months to recuperate from illness and rest from public engagements. He is recommended to the care of Billow's pupils, Buonamici and George F. Hatton, in Florence. At first they rent an apartment near to the Teatro dell Pergola and soon move to the mezzanino beneath the Hillebrands (Billow's friends) on the Via de Tornabuoni at the end of the Lung'Arno Nuovo. 1880 The Rhapsodie tcossaise is performed under Manns in Edinburgh on 5 January. ACM works on 'Burns': Second Scottish Rhapsodie in Florence and finishes the score on 26 September. The initial finale of the work is returned by Manns as 'much too wild' and ACM supplies another movement. 'Walter Stock recorded that this performance was conducted by Jansen (see MS catalogue in the RAM library). 248 Appendix 1: Biographical Timeline ACM spends a month at Innsbruck, Austria, where he completes The Bride and offers it for publication to Novello & Co. 1881 'Burns': Second Scottish Rhapsodic is premiered by Maims in Glasgow (January) and at the Crystal Palace (March). ACM decides to move to Florence on a permanent basis. He returns to Scotland in order to make suitable arrangements in his business affairs. The Bride is performed at the Worcester Festival under ACM. Edward Elgar is in the orchestra. 1882 Jason is performed at Bristol under Halle (19 October). The orchestra and chorus are seriously under-rehearsed. ACM stays with the Littleton family in Sydenham. 1883 Colomba is premiered at Drury Lane Theatre (9 April) and taken on a tour of Great Britain and Ireland by the Carl Rosa Opera Company. The orchestral ballad La belle dame sans merci is written at the request of the Philharmonic Society during ACM's stay with the Littletons. The work is performed by the Philharmonic under ACM on 9 May before he leaves London. ACM is approached by C. L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) to collaborate on an opera based on the popular Alice stories. The project is abandoned because Dodgson failed to write the libretto. ACM visits Paris with Alfred Littleton and Carl Rosa and attends a performance of Lakme. ACM is elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music. 1884 ACM meets Emma Nevada in Paris on the way to London and asks her to sing extracts from the part of the Sulanite in The Rose of Sharon. The Rose of Sharon is premiered at the Norwich Festival (16 October) to huge success. A subsequent performance takes place in London (22 November). ACM visits Davison (music critic) at Margate after the Norwich Festival. Following a performance of Colomba at the Court Theatre (29 April), ACM is awarded the Gold Medal for Art and Science, Hesse-Darmstadt. 1885 ACM meets Liszt at a dinner party given by the Hillebrands in Florence on 24 January. There is an outbreak of cholera in Italy during the summer months. ACM and his family spend the summer at the castle in Borgo alla Collina, near Florence. 249 Appendix I: Biographical Timeline Sarasate premieres the Violin Concerto at the Birmingham Festival (26 August). ACM is made the conductor of the reinstated Novello Oratorio Concerts (1869— 75) and moves to Sydenham. He is made an Honorary Member of the Glasgow Society of Musicians. 1886 Liszt visits London (3 April) for a fortnight and stays with the Littletons at Westwood House in Sydenham. St Elizabeth is produced at St James's Hall (5 April) and at the Crystal Palace (17 April). The Troubadour is premiered at Drury Lane Theatre (8 June) and is given two performances. The Austrian music critic, Eduard Hanslick, visits London and attends performance of The Troubadour as well as other concerts. ACM is awarded an honorary MusD by the University of St Andrew's and dedicates The Story of Sayid to the University Senate. The Story of Sayid is produced at the Leeds Festival (13 October). 1887 A Jubilee Ode is commissioned by the Crystal Palace and performed there under Manns and around the Empire on 22 June.
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